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Generalized reversal of glial and neurovascular cell transcriptomic aging signatures by glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist

ABSTRACT: Pharmacological reversal of brain aging is a long-sought yet challenging strategy for the prevention and treatment of age-related neurodegeneration, due to the diverse cell types and complex cellular pathways impacted by the aging process. Recently, we demonstrated that brain endothelial cell (EC) aging is transcriptomically and functionally reversible by treatment with exenatide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonist (GLP-1RA)(1). Here, we report that the reversal of transcriptomic aging signatures by GLP-1RA treatment is a generalized phenomenon in multiple major brain cell types, including glial (including astrocyte (AC), oligodendrocyte precursor cell (OPC), microglia (MG) and oligodendrocyte (OLG)) and mural (i.e. pericyte (PC) and smooth muscle cell (SMC)) cells. The age-related expression changes ameliorated by GLP-1RA encompass cell type-shared and specific functional pathways implicated in aging and neurodegeneration. These results show the feasibility of brain ageing reversal by pharmacological means, provide mechanistic insights into the neurological benefits of GLP-1RAs in diabetic patients(2, 3), and imply that GLP-1RA may be a generally applicable pharmacological intervention for non-diabetic patients at risk of age-related neurodegeneration.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE160991 | GEO | 2021/01/31

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE24992: Drosophila brain microRNA expression with age: miRNA profiling GSE25007: Drosophila brain gene expression with age: mRNA profiling GSE25008: Drosophila brain gene expression between wildtype and miR-34 null flies Refer to individual Series. Aging is the most prominent risk factor for human neurodegenerative disease, but underlying mechanisms that connect two processes are less well characterized. With age, the brain undergoes functional decline and perhaps degeneration. Such decline may not just contribute to normal aging, but also enhance susceptibility to and progression of age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, defining intrinsic factors and pathways that underline the normal integrity of the adult nervous system may lead to insights that potentially link aging and neurodegeneration. Here, we report a highly conserved microRNA (miRNA), miR-34, as a modulator of aging and neurodegeneration. Using Drosophila, we show that fly miR-34 expression is brain-enriched and strikingly upregulated with age. Functional studies reveal that, whereas animals without miR-34 are normal as young adults, upon aging, they gradually show late-onset deficits characteristic of accelerated brain aging; these include a transcriptional signature of aged animals, coupled with rapid functional decline, loss of brain integrity, followed by a catastrophic decline in adult viability. Moreover, upregulation of miR-34 protects against neurodegeneration induced by pathogenic human polyglutamine (polyQ) disease protein. We next reveal a dramatic effect of miR-34 to silence the Eip74EF gene of steroid hormone pathways in the adult, which is crucial to maintain the normal aging. Collectively, these data define a miR-34-mediated mechanism that specifically affects long-term integrity of the adult nervous system. miR-34 function in Drosophila may thus present a link that functionally connects aging and neurodegeneration. Our studies implicate essential roles of miRNA- dependent pathways in maintenance of the adult brain, disease pathogenesis and healthy aging.

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Generalized reversal of glial and neurovascular cell transcriptomic aging signatures by glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist

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